by schmill » Fri May 30, 2014 2:56 pm
A new version of Globe has been released. This is version 1.0c1. The changes:
Infrastructure:
- updated GIS backend which fixed an intersection bug that may have impacted data aggregation in multi geometries
Dashboard:
- reorganized page elements and added recent case notes & comments
Representativeness:
- published representativeness assessments are live!
- option to download weights and global data from a published representativeness analysis in XLSX format
- case weights are now normalized
- edits to language in representativeness assessment
- representativeness search tab added to representativeness assessment
- rep assessment: warning added to "overview" tab when cases in collection fall outside the filtered range of the analysis variable
- rep assessment: filter warning added when cases in collection fall outside the extent defined by the filters
- minor design tweaks to representativeness UI to make it resemble the similarity UI
- improved handling of missing values in histograms
- analysis is automatically re-run when the analysis variable is changed
- binning strategy "Globe Custom" has been renamed to "Globe Legend", "Globe Automatic" renamed to "Globe Default"
- a "categorical" binning strategy has been added (was originally only accessible through "Globe Automatic")
- binning strategies are automatically set to defaults when switching from a continuous analysis variable to nominal and vice-versa
- bin weights added to collection point tooltips in "overview" histogram
- simplified and improved layout of stats tables
- log scale on overview histogram is disabled when range crosses 0
- added a message to overview histogram when scale does not allow all bins to be visibile
- added "ESS Explorer" to explorer
Cases and case creation:
- added a protocol for authors to identify cases contributed by others as their own
General enhancements:
- speedups to full text search
- added visibility pull down to popups for creating curated objects (collections, analyses, etc.)
- improved browsing of curated object lists (saved analyses, published sim analysis)
- fixed non-working "case actions" icons on some screens (e.g. the sim analysis ranked site list)
Global Variables:
- added "Global Land Systems" to Human category (Van Asselen & Verburg,2012)
- added "Land System Archetypes" to Human category (Vaclavik et al., 2013)
- added "Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification" to Climate category (Peel et al 2007)
Matt Schmill
Globe System Architect